Disney Bows to Pressure from Its Chinese Masters, Deletes ‘Simpsons’ Episode Critical of China
Entertainment giant Disney has bowed to its Chinese masters and deleted an episode of The Simpsons that is critical of the oppressive Chinese government.
Disney deleted the episode from its streaming services so that the show could not be seen by the people of Hong Kong, the region China took over from the British in the year 2000.
Per The Blaze:
The Hong Kong Free Press reported over the weekend that episode 12 of season 16, titled, “Goo Goo Gai Pan,” was not available on Disney Plus amid the streaming service’s rollout this month.
The episode, which was first broadcast in 2005, reportedly follows the fictional cartoon family on a trip to mainland China, where they pay visits to the mummified body of former Chairman Mao Zedong and Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
While standing over the body of Mao Zedong, Homer Simpson describes the ex-leader as “a little angel that killed 50 million people,” according to the New York Times.
Then, during the Tiananmen Square stop, the family encounters a line of tanks in reference to the famous “tank man” photo taken during a 1989 student uprising there. In response to the demonstration, the People’s Liberation Army massacred thousands of students and other pro-democracy protesters.
In another scene, Homer sees a sign erected at Tiananmen Square that reads, “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.” This is a jab at Chinese tyrants for erasing the pro-democracy incident from its history books.
It’s all just more proof that these liars in Hollywood who have spent decades braying about their “artistic integrity” in the face of conservative criticism over leftist content now continue to delete and censor themselves to please China.
Scumbag Hollywood hypocrites.
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